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The 23andMe Deal - Cremieux Recueil

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Yesterday I won some bets that I made almost five years ago. These weren’t simple bets like “a different party will hold the Presidency” or “The CCP will be governing China in 2025”. Rather, I made a stack of nineteen bets on America’s pharmaceutical and biotech future with a few friends of mine and I got the first bet on the money with only a few months to spare. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you may have heard that Regeneron bought 23andMe. As predicted: Caveat: Not all of my proposed bets were accepted and there are some below these in another comment that I’m less likely to win. Whatever! That’s neither here nor there. What I really want to say is this: When someone predicts something unusual five years ahead of time, you should wonder why. In mid-2015, Matthew Nelson and colleagues published a groundbreaking paper. They found that when the mechanisms of different drugs were also implicated in genetic studies, the odds that those drugs would be approved were doubled

The 23andMe Deal So you want to know why Regeneron is going to be the world's biggest pharma company Cremieux May 21, 2025 94 28 6 Share Yesterday I won some bets that I made almost five years ago . [June 14 update: Maybe I lost this bet. Anne Wojcicki made a counteroffer and now Regeneron is the backup buyer. Article remains unchanged besides this cross-out and note.] These weren’t simple bets like “a different party will hold the Presidency” or “The CCP will be governing China in 2025”. Rather, I made a stack of nineteen bets on America’s pharmaceutical and biotech future with a few friends

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